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 I’ve been back from SOBCon NW, a conference held in Portland, for 12 days now. To say that my experience there was life changing is almost an understatement. It moved things inside of me that hadn’t been disturbed in years, it challenged core beliefs I have had about my life for way too long and it . . . → Read More: Finding your WHY  Aw yellow school buses. Definitely conjures memories of school trips past! I went on a school trip with my daughter today. (And by today I mean last spring – wrote this and it got lost and just found again – oops!) That has got to be one of the most enlightening experiences as a parent. First, . . . → Read More: School trip to MacSkimming, Ottawa A while back I stumbled onto Rachel’s blog The Minimalist Mom. I didn’t have any real desire to commit to a minimalist lifestyle, but I definitely longed for a simpler, more conscientious and deliberate way of life. Rachel is a no non-sense and interesting person (she’s an “almost” Olympian even!) and her blog is packed full . . . → Read More: Accidental Simplicity  In the fall of 2010, I was lucky enough to be chosen to participate in a 100 strangers project here in Ottawa. The photographer in this case was Kym Shumsky. She eventually turned all the photographs into a book to raise funds for Operation Rainbow Canada - She even had a little get together where a lot of . . . → Read More: Through Another’s Eyes I won’t be making any resolutions this year. And it’s a good thing I didn’t need a reason to pick myself up and pull up my socks up, because it would have been a loooong year. From hard to identify neurological issues resulting in multiple hospitalizations to having to cancel my wedding (less than a week . . . → Read More: Why I Am Not Writing New Year’s Resolutions Rick Mercer’s rant from October 25th, 2011 has helped me to identify something that had been nagging at me about the #ItGetsBetter campaign, something I hadn’t been able to quite put my finger on. First, a heart wrenching, and hard to accept statistic: *In Canada, 300 kids take their lives each year* Let’s just reflect on that for a second. . . . → Read More: Let’s Make it Better Now I didn’t think I was ever going to write this blog post… But on Monday evening, someone asked, in front of a room full of people (people I don’t know very well at that), when my big day was… Later in the week, someone was surprised to hear that I would be at Blissdom Canada this . . . → Read More: Bittersweet Blissdom It’s no secret that the last 2 months have been… interesting? emotional? demanding? The old me would have said down right crappy. But that was before I had to worry about something we now call “personal brand”. Let’s take a step back for a second. It’s not like I woke up on the wrong side of the bed one . . . → Read More: Everybody Hurts… sometimes Because I can’t actually fathom speaking or writing these words more often than I already have, here is the most unlikely possible update I could have ever imagined needing to share. {Update: if you click on the link you will see that Andrew Stanton @geekstanton has decided to delete the blog post that I wrote on . . . → Read More: There are no words… After a particularly difficult break-up last year, I lamented to my girlfriends that perhaps I was missing the “douchebag detector” gene. I had just been broken up with by someone who continued to tell me he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me, was following some of my friends through the “tweets near . . . → Read More: The One |
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